Chaerephon leucogaster (A. Grandidier, 1869)

Cakenberghe, Victor Van, Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu, Akawa, Prescott Musaba, Seamark, Ernest & Verheyen, Erik, 2017, The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi revisited (Mammalia: Chiroptera), European Journal of Taxonomy 382 (382), pp. 1-327 : 56

Chaerephon leucogaster (A. Grandidier, 1869)

Fig. 25 E–F

* Nyctinomus leucogaster A. Grandidier, 1869: 337 .

In Mammals of Africa, Happold (2013v: 528) includes leucogaster in Tadarida pumila . However, we follow Peterson et al. (1995: 162) and Simmons (2005: 434) in retaining it as a separate species. Some of the forms we consider to be synonyms of leucogaster were treated as synonyms of pumilus by Hayman et al. (1966: 62): Chaerephon (Lophomops) cristatus J.A. Allen, 1917 and Chaerephon frater J.A. Allen, 1917 . Simmons (2005) indicates that the distribution area of this species extends from Ethiopia to Ghana, including Nigeria, the DRC, Mali, and Madagascar. ACR (2016: 1130) mentions furthermore specimens from Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Mayotte, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Zambia.

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Fig. 25. Distribution maps. A–B. Chaerephon chapini J.A. Allen, 1917. C–D. Chaerephon gallagheri (Harrison, 1975). E–F. Chaerephon leucogaster (A. Grandidier, 1869). A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan-African distribution.